Radeon 760M vs Quadro FX 500

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated355
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data68.07
ArchitectureRankine (2003−2005)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNV34 A1Phoenix
Market segmentWorkstationDesktop
Release date21 May 2003 (21 year ago)8 January 2024 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data512
Core clock speed270 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2599 MHz
Number of transistors45 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate1.08083.17
Floating-point processing powerno data5.323 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs432
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed240 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth7.68 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGAMotherboard Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0a12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGL1.5 (2.1)4.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 May 2003 8 January 2024
Chip lithography 150 nm 4 nm

Radeon 760M has an age advantage of 20 years, and a 3650% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 500 and Radeon 760M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 500 is a workstation graphics card while Radeon 760M is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 500
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